Guild Wars 2

Rumours – confirmed or what?

Confirmed…by me….just now.

Dec 10, will strictly be class balancing plus new skills, traits etc..

perhaps Dec 24?

It will be in the preview, if it is coming with the next update – thus we’ll have to wait just a few hours to know about that.

Burnfall.9573:

Dec 10, will strictly be class balancing plus new skills, traits etc..

perhaps Dec 24?

Is this actually confirmed though?

Until yesterday we “knew” Dec 10 would only be a balancing patch. But now we know that it will also include new skills, so why not assume there is more we do not know?

We will soon see, seeing as today is reveal ^^

I believe that skill balancing is done by a set of developers in ArenaNet that are different from the four Living World teams (who produce the actual new content in every update, not just Living Story).

While I believe it is possible that the Living World team may have been working on the new healing skills, I believe the focus for the next update will be on Wintersday.

By the way, my prediction is that ascended armorcrafting will be introduced on the last update of the year (December 24). My reasoning for this is this:
- There are 4 Living World teams, who each take turns in preparing the content for an update.
- Ascended weapons were added in the September 3rd update.
- It is not unreasonable to assume that ascended armor will be done by the same people who also worked on ascended weapons.
- If the four teams have a fixed sequence, the December 24 update will be done by the same team that also worked on ascended weapons.

Besides, having ascended armor be introduced on the day before Christmas would be a nice coincidence that ArenaNet would probably not mind at all.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

Besides, having ascended armor be introduced on the day before Christmas would be a nice coincidence that ArenaNet would probably not mind at all.

Yes, because Christmas, obviously, would be the perfect time to grind for mats and craft levels.

…i really hope they’ll introduce it on 10th.

i’m a —--ty elementalist so i don’t pay much attention to ascended gear.. it’s like buying nice things to put in a dilapidated house
not to mention ascended gear has been implemented poorly already..
the new bloodstone quivers was a step in the right direction but fractal farmers still get better options.. Anyway, exotic gear and upgrade slots was a much better system than ascended infusions.. will runes fit into ascended armor?

Considering how weapons have sigil slots, then I am more than sure that armor will have rune slots.
Anyway, Considerong how Halloween thjs hear didn’t have a lot of new content added to it, I have a feeling that Wintersday will be tbs same. Meaning that I can see armkr crafting in the next patch.

BTW the codes for ascended armor were datamined a while ago. In these version the ascended armor have a upgrade slot like all exotic armor, but do not have any Infusion slot.

Of course these codes are a couple months old and a lot of work had been done on them since. So they probably changed them a lot since then.

Thaddeus.4891:

BTW the codes for ascended armor were datamined a while ago. In these version the ascended armor have a upgrade slot like all exotic armor, but do not have any Infusion slot.

Of course these codes are a couple months old and a lot of work had been done on them since. So they probably changed them a lot since then.

I would laugh so hard if what was datamined was not actually what we get – looks wise.

lordkrall.7241:

Burnfall.9573:

Dec 10, will strictly be class balancing plus new skills, traits etc..

perhaps Dec 24?

Is this actually confirmed though?

Until yesterday we “knew” Dec 10 would only be a balancing patch. But now we know that it will also include new skills, so why not assume there is more we do not know?

We will soon see, seeing as today is reveal ^^

can’t wait